The Ghost Towns of Pennsylvania’s Ghost Town Trail stretch over thirty miles along the state’s western rail trail. From Indian County’s Black Lick to Cambria County’s Edensburg, the trail was established in 1991, following the Blacklick Creek as one passes through several ghost towns that once upon a time served as thriving communities until the early 1900s. While the collecting and processing of coal were at their peak, the coal mining industry and the communities it supported flourished. When this began to decline, so did the population count of the towns that served as homes for the miners and their

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